How do you Pray?

We open our hearts to God because of our relationship to God, a relationship which God has initiated. Our prayer is always a response to God. We don’t initiate a relationship with God when we pray; we are always responding. More than anything, God longs to be in relationship with us and with all whom God has created. It’s of God’s essence to be in relationship. How God will break through to us will probably be because of some need we either have or know about.http://ssje.org/ssje/2010/02/02/the-prayer-of-petition-br-curtis-almquist/